Barry - 11 hours ago » Well I have just made a trawl through the thread elsewhere.
Can only find 3 users who are reporting a problem, and you yourself (if the same ejstubbs) posted that both the transmitters you can receive went through different phases of DSO whilst you were away.
If any members suffer this problem then please report:
1. Transmitter.
2. How long the unit was in standby for.
3. Last programme successfully recorded - prog name and channel.
4. The error message reported with the first failed recording if possible, again with prog name and channel.
The HDR was tuned to Black Hill only. I had manually tuned it to the Black Hill muxes, there was no trace of any Craigkelly mux on the box.
We were away for 14 days from Saturday 4th June. Black Hill went through the first phase of DSO on the Tuesday after we left (7th June). So after that date the BBC mux was on a different UHF channel, but the others - including the HD mux - were unchanged. Black Hill didn't go through the second phase of DSO until after we got back.
The box successfully recorded Springwatch on BBC HD after the first phase of DSO, on Tuesday 7th, Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th. It also recorded Desperate Housewives on Channel 4 HD on Wednesday 8th. Both programmes were on series link, but did not record the following week.
There were no failed recordings with errors, they just didn't happen. The implication is that the recordings were never scheduled.
This seems to me to be completely consistent with the box not updating its EPG while recording in standby. The EPG entries for the Springwatch and Desperate Housewives episodes which did record would have been present from the last time the box was out of standby ie Friday 3rd June. The EPG entries for the following week's episodes should have been available when the box was successfully recording the episodes in the first week we were away. For some reason either those later EPG entries do not seem to have been downloaded or - if they were downloaded - were not correctly series-linked.
I suspect that the reason not many people have reported this problem is, as suggested on the thread on the other forum, because not people don't stay away from home for more than a week very often.
It's been reported on the other forum by users RobH1, terryb, me and af12345 (who reported it to Humax). It's also been reported on yet another forum by user RogerEvans, and the response from user OwenSmith suggested that he might also have seen the problem.
It's not a show-stopper IMO because there is a fairly obvious and easy workaround. But a fix would be nice (if only to take that supercilious grin off the face of the other forum's persistent Humax-knocker for a minute or two...)
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